Books published by Griffin Publishing

"The Narnia Chronicles" are some of the most beloved children's books of all time. This interactive guide for young readers, helps them further explore "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe". This books answers some of the "who, what, when where and why" questions of the first Narnia book.

Demonstrates: how to go about securing the interview - from resume preparation to query letters, and more; how to dress, walk, and talk; common interview questions and how to answer them; how to deal with illegal questions (age, sexual orientation, and family status); and more. This book includes strategies, tips, sample resumes, and more.

Having pursued the remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac up to the banks of the Susquehanna, General Robert E Lee is caught off balance when news arrives that General Ulysses S Grant, in command of over seventy thousand men, has crossed that same river, and is advancing down the Cumberland Valley towards Virginia.

"Betsey Osborne . . . has pulled off an astonishing feat. She's written a compelling, elegant tale of nuance and loss with the confidence of a fiction veteran."---The Philadelphia Inquirer"Osborne writes effortlessly and wisely, plumbing the troubled depths of the seemingly unruffled surface of 'ordinary' life. . . . This is an auspicious debut by a new and very promising writer."---The Providence Journal"[A] graceful minuet of a novel . . . Osborne's concerns are gratifyingly complex, the predicaments she orchestrates unusual and suspenseful, her humor lithe, and her insights are keen and provocative."---Booklist"Writing with the precise and haunting tones of Virginia Woolf, Betsey Osborne creates a compelling a world . . . Uncas Metcalfe is a character for the ages."---Stephen J. Dubner, author of the New York Times bestseller Freakonomics Uncas Metcalfe is a sixty-five-year-old botany professor from a once prosperous central New York town, whose habitat is changing much too quickly: his wife is ill, his daughter has returned home, and memories of an almost forgotten infidelity have resurfaced. Uncas is rooted in a life of plants and manners. When his routine is upended by the menacing demands of a former student, Uncas finds his comfortably obstinate nature at odds with his family's growing impatience and a newfound, terrifying uncertainty. The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe follows an unforgettable hero as he struggles to right himself and adapt to changing expectations, even as he approaches the end of his life. Beautifully wrought and wonderfully imagined, the Metcalfe family will linger in your imagination long after the last page.

Get---and stay---organized!Let your natural inclinations guide you toward gaining control of your environment and learn to live life on your own terms. Drawing on the science of brain function and her experience as a professional organizer, Lanna Nakone offers tailored and specific advice that will actually work to help you tame your desk, unclutter your closet, manage your time, and save your sanity.Take the Brain Style quiz to determine which of the four parts of the brain you rely on the most to process information, and which organizing style complements your brain function. If you rely on the*Posterior left section of your brain, you're a Maintaining Style. You develop and follow routines well and adhere to traditional organizing methods. *Frontal right section of your brain, you're an Innovating Style. Artistically creative, you have a unique stacking system that no one else understands. *Posterior right section of your brain, you're a Harmonizing Style. Valuing interconnectedness with your family or coworkers, you need to be organized enough to keep your environment peaceful. *Frontal left section of your brain, you're a Prioritizing Style. Adept at analyzing data, you prefer to delegate organizing. Chapters specific to each type offer practical tips and strategies for implementing an organizing system, maintaining your system, and coexisting with different brain styles.Insightful and understanding, Organizing for Your Brain Type turns the task of managing your life into an enjoyable experience.

In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt''s Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds and maternal love. Sara, sixteen, is in denial about her pregnancy and too far along for an abortion. Her once-devoted boyfriend has disappeared so Sara decides her only option is an open adoption with George and Eva, a couple desperate for a child. After the birth it''s clear Sara has a bond with the child that Eva can''t duplicate and Eva and George make a drastic decision, with devastating consequences for them all.

In Lilibet, master biographer Carolly Erickson turns her skill at writing un-put-downable narrative to telling the remarkable story of Elizabeth II, Queen of England.With her customary psychological insight, historian Erickson traces the queen's gilded but often thorny path from her overprotected girlhood to her ascension to the throne at twenty-five to her personal and national difficulties as queen.Lilibet shows us an Elizabeth we thought we knew-but shows her in a different light: as a small, shy woman with a sly and at times raucous sense of humor, a woman who appears stiff in public, but in private enjoys watching wrestling on TV. A woman most at home among her horses and dogs. And a woman long annealed to heartbreak and sorrow, who has presided over the decline of Great Britain and the decline in prestige of her own Windsor dynasty.Far from being a light, gossipy treatment of a celebrity, Lilibet tells the queen's story from her point of view, letting the reader relive Elizabeth's long and eventful life with all its splendid ceremonies, momentous responsibilities and family clashes. Through it all we glimpse, as never before, the strong and appealing sovereign who has ruled over her people for half a century and more, a ruler of immense wealth, international esteem and high character whose daily life is grounded in the bedrock of common sense.

Covering newspaper and magazine features, web sites and blogs, music and movie reviews, novels, graphic novels, this book aims at showing that it's possible for anyone who writes well to get published. The topics included are benefits of publishing; how to find subjects to write about, how to research an idea; which form to write in; and more.

Lidian becomes disappointed by marriage, but is consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her children and her husband's reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship.

A historical thriller set in August 1889. A man lays dead in a darkened construction site near Manhattan's Madison Square Park. The murderer, Jim Tupper, a Mohawk Indian, flees back to the vast Adirondack wilderness. But he has left a trail of death behind pointing North, straight to where Detective Tom Braddock and his family are vacationing.

"Friday Night Chicas" is a collection of four flirty novellas that explore dating, marriage, friendship, and sex, through the eyes of four Latina women. "Friday Night in L.A" by Mary Castillo, "Friday Night in South Beach" by Caridad Peneiro, "Friday Night in Chicago" by Berta Platas, and "Friday Night in New York City" by Sofia Quintero.

Based on interviews with women across a social spectrum, the author has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us: why women can't and won't admit to rivalry; how women are trained from an early age to compete with one another; and, in which areas women most heatedly compete.

Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. But Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after all.

Assigned the duties of military attache to the American ambassador in Korea, World War II marine colonel James Cromwell finds himself in the throes of the dramatic First Hundred Days of the Korean War. By the author of Warning of War and The Marines of Autumn. 75,000 first printing.

Crafts the dramatic story of the 1999 US Open by combining research with interviews of those who made it a unique event. From the compelling action on the course to the tournament's dramatic conclusion, this book shows readers why the 1999 US Open is regarded by many as the best US Open ever played.

Provides parents, teachers, counsellors and other concerned adults with the information and tools that they need to help shy and socially anxious kids. This book also offers information on problems that can go along with social anxiety, including depression, school anxiety, separation anxiety, excessive worry, selective mutism, and more.

Learn How to Make Any Occasion Shine!Have you ever attended a party so clever it had you talking for days? Or received an invitation that made you feel like royalty? Were you ever given a gift so "you" that you never forgot it? Make It Memorable is an A to Z thematically organized resource for making the most of every special occasion and highlighting the little things in life. From anniversaries and birthdays through weddings and zero-cost ideas, it includes: - It was a very good year! For a special anniversary, select bottles of wine with vintages from special years for the couple---the year they met, the year they married, etc.- A blast from the past! For a memorable birthday for an old friend, rent a limo and take a tour down memory lane---past the birthday girl''s high school, first house, etc., reminiscing as you go. - Love is in bloom! For a garden party shower theme, have each guest bring a plant. Distribute the plants around the room to create your own greenhouse atmosphere for the bride. - A to-do bag just for you! For a get-well present, create a to-do bag filled with things your friend can do while recuperating. You can include everything from favorite missed shows on videotape to assorted magazines and goodies.- Plus fabulous favors, inviting invitations, party ideas, dazzling centerpieces, memorable gifts, unforgettable weddings, and much more! Gift-giving expert Robyn Spizman has packed Make It Memorable with the most creative ideas under the sun for enlivening every party, event, and occasion with a touch of pizzazz.

In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family regularly parks by the tracks to watch the train pass through. Yet small-town life and, especially, the prairie prove to be fertile ground for Andersen's imagination. Exploring subjects as seemingly unrelated as Roy Rogers and Tolstoy's beloved Anna Karenina, she repeatedly locates a transcendent connection with South Dakota's broad horizon.Andersen introduces us to her hardworking newspaper family, which produces one of Plainville's two competing weeklies; to Job's Daughters, a Christian association intended to prepare young women for adversity (Plainville's chapter assumes the added responsibility of throwing the town's best teen dances); and even to a local variety of hardy alfalfa, to which her best friend has a surprising kinship.Leaving behind her physical home, Andersen travels East for college, remaining to begin a journalism career. With her husband she eventually settles into her first house, a beautiful Victorian that, though loved, somehow does not feel like home in the way she had anticipated. Through subsequent travels, memories, and a meditation on Tolstoy's complex relationship to his ancestral home, she arrives at a new idea of what home is -- one that should resonate with every American who has ever had to pull up stakes.

Demonstrates that slow cookers are useful and ingenious year-round appliances, perfect not just for the soups and stews of winter, but for spring potlucks at school and big family picnics in summer. This book includes not just main dishes, but also appetizers and side dishes.

In the 1990s, two series of shots containing a mercury-based preservative called Thimerosal were added to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule. Some parents noticed their healthy children suddenly descending into autism soon after receiving vaccinations. This book explores both sides of this controversy.

A detailed memoir of an extraordinary young man by a close friend. the author was a freshmen at Brown when he met JFK, Jr. Although he came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Robert Bruce was Scotland's greatest king ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under English occupation. When King Robert began his reign, his first two battles were losses. Yet from 1307-1313, The Bruce won battle after battle.

"This book is for real, because Libby is for real," states legendary strategist Dr. Phil McGraw in his foreword to TRAVELING HOPEFULLY. With courage and candor, Libby reveals the real issues of her life--molestation, suicide, and mental illness--and shares her hard-earned insights on how her tragic family legacy shaped her life in negative ways.She shifted her perspective from limiting to liberating, shedding those recurring themes and dramatically transforming her past. With a process she calls Five Steps to Jumpstart Your Life, Libby explains how others can rewrite their stories, as she did, to create more joy and fulfillment.The 21 Hopeful Tools are easy to follow exercises and examples that take the reader through a transformative process, teaching how to:*dissect the past to direct the future*link internal clarity with external action*create a Traveling Hopefully personal roadmap*choose positive Travel Companions to support and inspire you*keep moving toward what is wanted and away from what no longer servesFilled with personal stories and those of others, TRAVELING HOPEFULLY inspires change--how to become a doer rather than a dreamer.

The FBI that Freeh took over was still reeling from the bloody standoff at Ruby Ridge and the conflagration at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texa. This work follows Freeh through his disputes with Clinton, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, and others over indictments against the senior Iranian officials behind the Khobar bombing.

Sophie Quinn has always lived in Washington, DC, but now she finds herself in Portland, Maine for a year. With the pipes freezing-inside the house. And a husband who seems to have his eye on a hiking-booted LLBean femme fatale. Not to mention the mother-in-law from hell who never fails to let her know that she leaves much to be desired.

Focuses on two teenage sisters struggling to carve out their identities as young adults, taking risks and undergoing disturbing transformations that go unchallenged by their emotionally absent parents. In the vein of "American Beauty", this book offers a glimpse into the world of a family in crisis.

Features scores of fresh interviews, including one with the session musicians from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who recorded with Aretha Franklin. This title is the story of a great artistic achievement. It's also a biography of a star who is both more complex and determined than her modern image as a diva indicates.

Abby has turned thirteen - a real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far from what she hoped for.

One man believes Linda Bascomb was murdered. A second believes she took her own life. The first is her husband, Warren, an aging surgeon who has lost his medical license because of his morphine addiction. The second is her son, Ben, a husband and father who struggles every day to remain sober and avoid bankruptcy.Warren has entered into an arrangement with his son that has since kept Ben financially afloat and Warren supplied with morphine. Ben's wife, Emma, desperately seeks to distance her husband from Warren before their relationship destroys her family. Opposing her efforts is Victor Javier, the mastermind of the arrangement, an immigrant whose cruelty masks a hope for his mother's deliverance. Though Linda Bascomb was once the true connection between Warren and Ben, her memory becomes the specter that polarizes them. As the pain of unresolved history accumulates, their embittered agreement collapses, and in the process destroys one life, changes another forever, and drives both from the emotional and chemical shelters in which they hide. In the inevitable reckoning, Ben and Warren are forced to acknowledge the power the dead exert on the living, the elusive nature of redemption, and the ways the things we lose define us. Sometimes shocking, always incisive, Keith Dixon's brilliant debut novel is a harsh but compassionate portrayal of love and need. Set on the emotionally bleak outskirts of New York City, Ghostfires, with stylistic power and psychological precision, lays bare a corrupt American dream-and a family with scores to settle.

In the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling a family is torn apart when two sisters fall in love with the same man. Forbidden love, family relationships, jealousies and surprising twists reveal the extent to which family honour in India still plays an important role.